Argentina's sixteenth Pride event is great success
Argentina celebrated its sixteenth annual Gay Pride ceremony last weekend.
The event was held in Buenos Aires, which recently won the trophy in the Gay World Cup, also held in the Latin American country.
According to Reuters, Cesar Cigliutti, President of the Argentine Homosexual Community said at the event: "After sixteen years our motto is celebration.
Peer collapses during gay parents debate
A Lords debate on a proposed new law that would make gay and lesbian parenting easier was adjourned after a peer collapsed in the House yesterday.
The move was aimed at making the need for a father at IVF children unnecessary.
Some peers however said it should uphold the importance of both parents.
Gay TV network celebrates AIDS awareness
The Annual Ribbon of Hope celebration is set to be shown on the American gay TV network here! for the second year in a row.
The event, now in its 11th year, is aimed at celebrating those working in television as well as individuals who keep HIV/AIDS awareness, education and prevention at the forefront.
The ceremony is due to coincide with World AIDS Day on the 1st December.
Police offficer cautioned in cruising crackdown
A total of 32 people, including a police officer, have been cautioned as a result of a crackdown on cruising in a toilet block in Wallasey, Liverpool.
Six people were charged under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 for the alleged sexual activity that happened in the toilets on Harrison Drive in the New Brighton area of the city earlier this year.
Arizona city vows to protect LGBT people
A city in Arizona's Personnel Board has voted unanimously to recommend the city protects gays and transgender people from discrimination.
This is the first of Scottsdale's three part ordinance, including a proposal requiring all of the cities businesses to offer protection for the LGBT community.
There were a few objections to the board's approval.
Banning Gay Pride march was illegal, Supreme Court rules
Latvian authorities have ruled that a ban on a Gay Pride march in 2006 was illegal.
The event was was banned amid threats of violence from extremist groups.
The municipal authorities in the Latvian capital Riga were told that the event would be cancelled to avoid public disorder after Christians, nationalists and neo-Nazis threatened the parade with violence and a counter march.
Number of AIDS cases lower than previously estimated
Global numbers of people with AIDS may have been over exaggerated, according to news reports.
The number in 2006, estimated to be 40 million people, may have been 6.2 million over the real amount.
The decline is largely just on paper — the new numbers are the result of improved methodology, which shows the spread of AIDS has been losing momentum for almost a decade.
Gay hate crime on the rise in US
Hate crime incidents in the US rose by nearly 8 per cent last year, according to an FBI report.
There were 7,722 reported cases targeting victims or their property as a result of bias against sexual orientation, race, religion,national origin or physical or mental disability.
The numbers are thought to be higher than reported however, due to only 12,600 of the US's 17,000 local, county, state and federal police agencies participating in the report.
Fire service plans to improve gay representation
A framework document on the future of the fire and rescue service is set to include plans to improve the representation of the LGB community.
Currently less than 0.5% of the fire service are openly lesbian, gay or bixexual, equivalent to less than 270 people. Nationwide, 7% of the working population identify themselves as LGB.
The document, to be released in spring 2008, also addresses the representation of women and minority background employees, which the fire service lacks in current trends.
Korea urged to reinstate orientation discrimination proposals
Plans to drop sexual orientation from a proposed bill on anti-discrimination in South Korea have been met with disappointment from LGBT organisations all over the world.
The bill, the first of its kind in the country was announced in October.
According to news reports and members from the ruling Democratic Labour Party, sexual orientation has since been removed from the draft along with other categories such as ideologies, appearance and military status.
C4 cleared over Muslim gay-hate documentary
The broadcasting watchdog has cleared Channel 4 over a documentary broadcast in January exposing homophobic preaching in UK mosques.
The Dispatches programme portrayed a Birmingham mosque as a haven for extreme views.
Today Ofcom ruled that Undercover Mosque had not misled viewers or offended Muslims. Undercover footage showed preacher Abu Usamah at Green Lane Mosque in Birmingham calling for gay people to be executed.
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